Neck thru construction.

[EvilBatman]

After having my new SL2H for a while, I've found myself wondering what type of Neck thru consturction Jackson uses. Are the wings of the body glued right to a big honkin' block of maple or is the body shape made, then top routed all the way down to the bottom and the neck then glued in?

Just curious.

[noodlesatf]

Re: Neck thru construction.

The neck is shaped, the fretboard and frets are installed, and then very rough-shaped blanks are glued to the sides of the neck. After the glue is dry, the body is shaped and the routing is done.

There is a custom shop tour here that Rob Lane did, and you can see all the steps in the process.

[EvilBatman]

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Cool! Thanks for the link.

[noodlesatf]

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No prob.

[Hossman]

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Yeah What Noodles said [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

http://www.jacksoncharvelworld.net

[RR05xx]

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That link is cool. Thanks for reminding us.

[Madness]

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Yeah, thanks for the link! [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

[xenophobe]

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Actually, it doesn't quite show their techniques on that page... there are three main ways they do necks on their pointies.

1) Standard: Slab of quartersawn maple has a headstock blank glued on at about the 2nd fret at an angle (scarf jointed), and another blank placed by the heel of the neck. The length of the neck is actually 3 pieces of wood (headstock/neck/neck-heel-body) not including the fretboard. The neck is routed, then the sides (wings) are glued on. Then final body shaping takes place

2) 3 piece neck... three full lenghts of wood are laminated together. They're cut and routed, then the sides are attached. This style of neck has three pieces running the whole length of the neck and is much stiffer, but each piece of the neck runs the whole length of the guitar, and there is no seperate neck heel block.

3) Multi-Laminate: They take various woods and layer them, and then cut and attach the side wings. It is like the above neck, but with more layers.

Those are the three main types of necks that Jackson does on their neck-throughs. They've done other stuff early on, but the types I listed are current.

2) 3-piece

[noodlesatf]

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Jackson Charvel world is the first site I found when I caught my Jackson/Charvel bug years ago with a Model 5. I think I've been over every inch of that site, with Lillian Axe laying the whole time. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Hossman, is that your site? If so, what happened to the section with your collecton? It was mega-sweet...

[ElwoodBlues]

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That is so cool. Thanks for posting the "How'd they do that" link.

[RacerX]

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What year were those pics taken?